[TYPO3-dev] Status of "devlog" extension

[Georg Grossberger]

Hi

Sorry for the radio silence, was busy with something else, but now I'm 
back in the TYPO3 track.

I did some catch up on the discussions here and converted it into a few 
patches, available at [1].

Firstly, the devlog is a writer for the new Logging API, listening to 
messages @DEBUG and upwards (or downwards as in this case). It also 
comes with a two additional processors for data about logged in users 
and the complete stack trace if the call. This is preconfigured to make 
logging devlogging work right away without any additional configuration.

The second change is, that it uses a domain model now, at least some 
kind of. It is NOT an extbase model, but using its own approach. This is 
currently more like a hack than a clean implementation, but currently 
its just a proof-of-concept anyways.

The reasons for not using extbase:

1. We may (or most likely) want to log stuff before extbase is ready
2. We want to log stuff even if extbase fails for some reason (wrong 
configs, ...)

@Francois: I agree with Steffen, that "devlogging" is not something 
entirely different, but simply the same, only much more verbose and 
detailed logging than in a production environment, hence the debug 
writer. Just debug everything you need and in a production environment 
you only get warnings etc. Switch to a dev environment and the very same 
code outputs much more information.

@Steffen: I'm happy to help out. Applied for membership and reading the 
tasks and stories right now.

Regards,
Georg

[1] https://github.com/Trenker/typo3.devlog.git